Course Details

1273 - Shared Parenting: Supporting the Partnership of Birth and Foster Parents

Vernon Memorial Hospital
Viroqua, WI
South Main St.
Viroqua WI, 54665

Start Dates/Time	End Dates/Time
11/14/2009 9:00:00 AM	11/14/2009 4:00:00 PM

Registration Starts: 8:30 AM

Member Cost: $20.00 Non-Member Cost: $100.00

Description:

This workshop will emphasize the importance of agency support of partnerships among birth families and foster families as an essential element of family-centered practice. It will address the role that child welfare workers play in developing, encouraging and facilitating the relationships between the agency, birth families and foster families. This training will include a discussion of issues such as fear and control, as well as the benefits of supporting, building, and maintaining all of the attachments for children in care. This training will be highly interactive, with workers using creative thinking to develop ways to support birth families and foster families as they initially meet each other and begin their work together to help the child feel the support of both sets of parents.

Presenters:

Peg Cadd

Peg is a trainer, mentor, and parent through foster care, adoption & birth. She and her husband Rick have been foster parents for over 25 years. Their family includes 11 amazing children (7 Adopted from foster care) & 4 beautiful grandchildren. Peg was the youngest foster parent in Waukesha County when her family started to foster teen girls and it's been a wild ride since. They have fostered many different children from medically fragile infants to teen moms and their babies. She believes in shared parenting and keeping contact with bio families. "It's amazing the outcomes for both the children and their bio families," says Peg. In addition to fostering Peg has had over 20 years in the early child field including Head Start. She firmly believes "That if we work together as a team, we can make a difference in the lives of "our" children."

To register for this session contact the following:
Web Site: http://southernpartnership.wisc.edu/TrainingDetails.aspx?lnk=2&tsID=1343
Email: trainings@southernpartnership.wisc.edu
Phone: 608-262-7291

Other Information:

This is for Vernon and surrounding counties Foster Parents and staff. Foster Parents are free for this training.